A FORMER Geoscience Australia scientist has strived to improve the level of seismic research conducted in Australia by self-funding seismographs in WA schools.

SENIOR Research Fellow Dr Fred Jourdan of Curtin University's Applied Geology Department at is looking to space to explore mass extinctions on Earth.

CURTIN University Nanochemistry Research Institute Associate Professor Nigel Marks says background radiation is affected by a number of factors from altitude and residential location to granite formations.

A PERTH archaeologist is providing the world with the first real glimpse into Saudi Arabia’s rich archaeological trove by using Google Earth to analyse an area called the ‘Jeddah Window’.

ONE of the South-West’s most popular and threatened tourist attractions has reopened following a multi-million dollar upgrade.

A LEADING researcher from UWA has received a five-year $570,000 grant to conduct follow-up work on the recent discovery of more than 20,000 well-preserved fossils in southwest China’s Yunnan Province.